What We Learned About PayPal’s Crypto Strategy This Week
Insights from PayPal’s first quarterly earnings report since launching crypto services.
Related News
Bitcoin.com spoke with a Wall Street trader on why PayPal’s centralized P2P payment system Venmo is preferred among his circle over Bitcoin to uncover what is preventing the cryptocurrency from breaking into the mainstream. It appears that the never ending stream of Bitcoin eulogies is not slowing down anytime soon, as the world’s first decentralized....
Prior to Wednesday’s decision, PayPal users weren’t allowed to move their holdings off the platform. PayPal’s embrace of cryptocurrencies appears to be growing after the payments provider revealed that it will allow users to withdraw their digital assets to third-party wallets. The news, which was reported by Reuters Wednesday afternoon, comes just seven months after PayPal first enabled crypto purchases on its platform. At the time, the decision was heralded as a major milestone in mainstream recognition of digital assets. The Wednesday announcement means PayPal users will be able to send....
The introduction of bitcoin purchases to PayPal’s 346 million global users is the biggest step toward mainstream crypto adoption ever. The post Palling Up To Crypto: Could PayPal’s Bitcoin Accommodation Lead To Widespread Adoption? appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
YouTube has quietly added a new payout option that lets creators in the US receive earnings in PayPal’s dollar-pegged token, PYUSD. According to several reports, the change appears to be active now and is being offered through PayPal’s payout rails rather than through any direct crypto custody by YouTube. Related Reading: UAE Telecom Powerhouse Embraces […]
PayPal’s crypto integration may bode well for Bitcoin price as its user base could triple Bitcoin (BTC) price has again punched through the $13,000 mark after yesterday’s PayPal’s announcement sparked a powerful rally which drove the price to a new 2020 high. Currently sitting near $13,100, Bitcoin price has rallied nearly 10% since the announcement and BTC is now close to overtaking PayPal as the 21st biggest asset by market capitalization.PayPal’s crypto announcement comes two weeks after Square, another payments giant, announced its own foray into Bitcoin by investing roughly 1% of its....